The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 11, § 8)
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§ 8. Voting
(a) Voting qualifications for the right to vote in any City election or meeting shall
be the same as those required by State statutes for municipal meetings.
(b) The penalties for illegal voting at any City election shall be the same as those prescribed
for illegal voting by State statutes.
(c) Checklists of voters for the City and for each of the City’s wards shall be compiled
and maintained pursuant to Title 17 of the Vermont Statutes Annotated. All persons
who are legal voters in City meetings shall be entitled to have their names added
to the checklist for the district where they reside, at the time the checklist is
compiled and no person shall vote for any City official or other item on the warning
unless the person’s name is on the checklist.
(d) For any general or primary election, the City Council, or the City Clerk as its designee
if so chosen by the City Council, may appoint as many additional ballot and assisting
clerks as deemed necessary.
(e) At the close of the balloting at any City election, the City Clerk and assisting clerks
and the City Council shall count the votes cast for all officials and report a list
of the candidates for whom votes have been cast, for each office, and the number of
votes the candidate has received, which shall be recorded by the City Clerk, and the
candidate who has received a plurality of the votes cast for each respective office
shall by the Mayor be declared elected to that office. If no candidate shall have
received a plurality of all votes for the office for which he or she is candidate,
the Mayor shall order a new ballot in the ward or wards as have so failed to elect
and a reasonable time shall be allowed for receiving and counting votes as shall be
cast at that or any subsequent ballot until all the officials are duly elected.
(f) No person, or family member of a person, whose name appears on the ballot as a candidate
for any office at an election shall assist in the counting of ballots in the election.
No person shall assist in the counting of ballots who is otherwise deemed by the City
Clerk to have a conflict of interest due to:
(1) any association with a candidate;
(2) financial interests, as provided for in section 15 of this charter. (Amended 2009, No. M-23 (Adj. Sess.), § 9, eff. May 20, 2010.)